Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases & Practice
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Biography

Abhisheka Bansal is a post-doctoral fellow at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, USA. Dr. Bansal completed his graduation in Biotechnology in 2004 from Amity Institute of Biotechnology, India. He received his master’s degree in Biotechnology from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India where he worked on “Detection of Mycobacterium bovis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis in skin biopsies”. Dr. Bansal completed his PhD from International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, India on understanding the “Role of calcium signaling in the invasion of red blood cells by Plasmodium falciparum”. He published these findings in Journal of Biological Chemistry and joined Dr. Louis H. Miller at NIAID, NIH, USA for further research on malaria. Here he contributed in understanding the molecular basis of allelic exclusion of virulence genes in P. falciparum. Currently, Dr. Bansal has been working on understanding the role of kinases in invasion of red blood cells by P. falciparum.

Research Interest

Dr. Bansal is interested in understanding the signaling pathways that regulate the invasion of red blood cells by malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. His primary focus is to understand the role of calcium dependent protein kinases (CDPKs) in this critical process of asexual proliferation of the parasite. Dr. Bansal is also interested in understanding the signaling cascades involving CDPKs in exflagellation of male gametocytes to form microgametes.

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Publications

Chemical Genetics to Study Plasmodium Kinases

Abhisheka Bansal and Louis H. Miller

Short Communication: J Clin Infect Dis Pract 2016, 1:102